Apprentice Print & Embroidery Technician
SURF WORKS LIMITED
Worcestershire (DY13 9JY)
Closes in 30 days (Sunday 14 September 2025 at 11:59pm)
Posted on 14 August 2025
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Summary
We're on the lookout for a motivated and creative individual to join our team as an Apprentice Print & Embroidery Technician. This is a fantastic opportunity to gain real-world skills while working towards a Level 3 Print Technician (Press) Apprenticeship with BPIF Training - equivalent to A-Levels.
- Wage
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£14,918.80 for your first year, then could increase depending on your age
National Minimum Wage rate for apprentices
- Training course
- Print technician (level 3)
- Hours
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Monday - Friday, working hours TBC
37 hours 30 minutes a week
- Start date
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Monday 15 September 2025
- Duration
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3 years
- Positions available
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1
Work
Most of your apprenticeship is spent working. You’ll learn on the job by getting hands-on experience.
What you'll do at work
Pre-Press:
- Handle customer enquiries, quotes, and administration Design and prepare artwork for embroidery and DTF printing, as well as outsourced production
- Proof and amend artwork to customer specifications
- Prepare files to correct specifications and colour profiles
- Source and order production materials
Press/Production:
- Set up and operate embroidery machines, selecting threads, needles, and settings
- Set up and operate DTF printers, preparing and loading artwork files, managing ink levels, monitoring quality, and ensuring colour accuracy
- Carry out heat pressing to transfer DTF prints onto garments and substrates, ensuring correct temperature, pressure, and timing
- Plan production runs for efficiency and minimal downtime
- Monitor output, troubleshoot issues, and meet deadlines
Post-Production:
- Finish, package, and dispatch completed orders
- Perform basic machine maintenance
- Maintain a clean, safe, and organised workspace
Where you'll work
Unit 22
Wilden Industrial Estate
Stourport-on-Severn
Worcestershire
DY13 9JY
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
BPIF TRAINING LIMITED
Training course
Print technician (level 3)
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What you'll learn
Course contents
- Apply environmental and sustainability procedures in compliance with regulations and standards for example, segregating resources for reuse, recycling and disposal.
- Apply health and safety and manual handling procedures in compliance with regulations and standards.
- Plan and prioritise work
- Record or enter information - paper based or electronic for example, work sheets, check lists, handover records, job sheets.
- Apply continuous improvement techniques. Devise suggestions for improvement.
- Follow equality, diversity and inclusion procedures.
- Communicate with others verbally including colleagues or stakeholders.
- Communicate in writing.
- Apply problem-solving techniques to common problems.
- Use information and digital technology. Comply with GDPR and cyber security regulations and policies.
- Identify, organise and use resources effectively to complete tasks, with consideration for cost, quality, safety, security and environmental impact.
- Apply team working principles.
- Convert customer files to print-ready files using software and workflow packages.
- Check, process and transmit digital files using software.
- Create and edit digital images.
- Conversion of digital files into colour separations for the defined production method.
- Apply digital techniques to produce a proof.
- Apply colour profiles to the design.
- Apply production techniques to produce plates, screens, or output files.
- Apply pre-press quality assurance procedures.
- Set up and check the multi-unit print press, including speeds, inks and toners and pre-printing quality checks.
- Follow print press start up or warm up procedures.
- Apply print press operations and techniques, including managing colour. Handle variable data on digital presses.
- Follow quality control processes during printing, including checking for colour matching, print resolution, product consistency.
- Apply press equipment and machinery maintenance techniques including cleaning and servicing.
- Follow machine shut down, safe isolation, hand over procedures. Escalate issues.
- Apply press quality assurance procedures.
- Apply safe systems of work to the printing press process in compliance with regulations, standards, and guidelines. This should include identifying risks and hazards and the handling and disposal of chemicals.
- Set up finishing equipment for example, guillotines, stitching-trimming machinery, binding machinery, laminating equipment, die-cutters.
- Operate finishing equipment to apply different finishing processes, for example, varnishing, folding, embossing and debossing, foil blocking, scoring, packing, gluing, match and attach, tab and slot, sorting, banding.
- Prepare printing for next stage, including packing and wrapping.
- Apply post-press equipment maintenance techniques including cleaning and servicing.
- Apply post-press quality assurance procedures such as checking for folding accuracy, stitch alignment, foil position.
- Apply safe systems of work to the finishing process in compliance with regulations, standards and guidelines, including the handling and disposal of chemicals.
- Apply environmental and sustainability procedures in compliance with regulations and standards for example, segregating resources for reuse, recycling and disposal.
- Apply health and safety and manual handling procedures in compliance with regulations and standards.
- Plan and prioritise work
- Record or enter information - paper based or electronic for example, work sheets, check lists, handover records, job sheets.
- Apply continuous improvement techniques. Devise suggestions for improvement.
- Follow equality, diversity and inclusion procedures.
- Communicate with others verbally including colleagues or stakeholders.
- Communicate in writing.
- Apply problem-solving techniques to common problems.
- Use information and digital technology. Comply with GDPR and cyber security regulations and policies.
- Identify, organise and use resources effectively to complete tasks, with consideration for cost, quality, safety, security and environmental impact.
- Apply team working principles.
Training schedule
You'll be enrolled in the Level 3 Print Technician (Press) programme delivered by BPIF Training. This structured course combines workplace learning with online workshops, one-to-one tutor sessions, and ongoing support. You'll develop core industry knowledge, technical skills, and professional behaviours to set you up for a successful career in print production.
Requirements
Desirable qualifications
GCSE or equivalent in:
- English (grade 4)
- Maths (grade 4)
Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.
Skills
- Attention to detail
- Communication skills
- Creative
- Initiative
- IT skills
- Logical
- Organisation skills
- Patience
- Physical fitness
- Problem solving skills
- Team working
About this employer
Surf Works are a leading midlands based creative agency. We specialise in creating stunning design and producing outstanding marketing materials for clients across a large variety of sectors.
After this apprenticeship
Career progression opportunities in a growing company.
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The contact for this apprenticeship is:
BPIF TRAINING LIMITED
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000337070.
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Closes in 30 days (Sunday 14 September 2025 at 11:59pm)
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